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PubNub Gets Another $20M To Scale Up Its Low-Latency Messaging Network
PubNub, a startup out of San Francisco that has built a data network focused on messaging for apps, IoT hardware and other low-latency services, has raised another $20 million in a Series C round of funding. It seems that 20 million is the magic number for PubNub at the moment: the company — which works with some 2,000 businesses and partners including high profile names like… Read More
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HomeHero Locks Down $23M For Its Home Care Marketplace
HomeHero, a Santa Monica-based startup that works to connect home care workers with the families that need them, announced today that it has raised $23 million. The sum includes a $20 million Series A round of capital, in addition to a previously undisclosed $3 million capital event. The funding was led by Graham Holdings. Read More
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ScoreBeyond, A Standardized Test Prep App, Raises $2.8M
ScoreBeyond, a service that helps students prepare for standardized tests like the SAT, said it has raised $2.8 million in a round led by Khosla Ventures. The ScoreBeyond app gives students a daily progress report of their skills as they prepare for the test, as well as daily exercises to improve their skills in certain subjects. Dogan has a background in product management for… Read More
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Cloud Finance Intelligence Startup Adaptive Insights Gets $75M, Reportedly At A Unicorn Valuation
The rise of the CFO from back-office number cruncher to business leader is being played out across a number of companies, from tech leaders like Twitter through to consumer giants like PepsiCo. That shift of gravity, it turns out, is also being played out in the world of enterprise software.
Adaptive Insights, a fast-growing startup that sells cloud-based services to finance and other… Read More
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Local Services Marketplace UrbanClap Gets $10M Series A To Expand Throughout India
UrbanClap, which claims to be India’s largest mobile-based services marketplace, wants to become even bigger. The New Delhi-based startup recently scored a Series A investment of $10 million from returning investors SAIF Partners and Accel Partners, which it will use to grow across the entire country, improve its app-based platform, and increase its company size from 100 employees to 500. Read More
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Snips Grabs $6.3 Million To Add An Artificial Intelligence Layer To Your Phone
French startup Snips just raised $6.3 million (€5.6 million) in a seed round led by The Hive, with participation from Eniac Ventures, 500 startups, Brent Hoberman, Xavier Niel and Bpifrance. The company wants to add some sort of artificial intelligence layer on top of your smartphone so that you can use your phone more efficiently. In pragmatical terms, Snips will release in the near future… Read More
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Security Firm Sophos Raises $125M In UK IPO, Valuing It At $1.6B
As malicious hacks, data breaches and other forms of cyber crime continue to persist in our networked, Internet-connected world, Sophos, a maker of antivirus software, firewall hardware and other security products for networks, individual users and servers, is going public on the London Stock Exchange.
Trading now as Sophos Group plc and using the “SOPH” ticker, the company… Read More
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Whittl Picks Up A Chicago-Style $3.3M Series A
It turns out geography is still a thing. Recently, Whittl, a Chicago-based company raised a $3.3 million Series A round of capital. The new monetary event follows a $1.3 million seed round that took place around two years ago. If you can’t see the irony, you haven’t lived outside of the Valley in some time. Given the generic chop of both Clinkle and Secret, it’s hard to keep… Read More
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Real Estate Startup Zumper Raises Another $6.4 Million
Zumper, the platform that allows you to list, find and apply to apartment rentals, has raised $6.4 million as a Series A1, a year after raising a $6.5 million Series A round. This round was again led by existing investors Goodwater Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Read More
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PayRange, A Startup That Enables Vending Machines To Take Credit Cards For Payment, Raises $12M
PayRange, which makes a small device that plugs into vending machines that enables customers to pay with credit cards, said that it has raised $12 million in venture financing. The company produces a device that plugs into vending machines that interacts with an app. It uses Bluetooth to connect to the app, wherein customers can make a purchase. The device works with basically any vending… Read More
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